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Agriculture · Q850

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 850

Q850

Seedless watermelon is a

A.
Diploid
B.
Monoploid
C.
Triploid
Answer
D.
Pentaploid

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Seedless watermelon is a Triploid.
Seedless watermelons are triploid (3X) which causes them to be sterile, or seedless. The triploid seeds are created by crossing a normal diploid (2X) melon as the pollinator with a tetraploid (4X) parent. Each parent contributes half its respective chromosomes, 1X from one parent and 2X from the other.
It is a sterile hybrid that is created by crossing male pollen for a watermelon, containing 22 chromosomes per cell, with a female watermelon flower with 44 chromosomes per cell.